BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250309T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251015T190101Z UID:05E8168C-D148-4FD2-8490-01849E2CDCE9 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251011T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251011T213000 DESCRIPTION:2025 IEEE MIT Undergraduate Research Technology Conference (URT C) is once again hosting the 2025 MIT Micromouse Competition on Saturday\, October 11\, 2025 at 6:00pm to 9:30pm.\n\nPlease note that this registrat ion is to participate the Micromouse Competition only. If you want to atte nd the URTC conference\, you have to register for the conference at https: //cvent.me/kYgPAO\n\nA Micromouse is a small robot vehicle that is able to navigate its way through an unknown maze. It is autonomous\, battery-oper ated and self-contained\, encompassing computer technology\, robotics and artificial intelligence. The main challenge for the Micromouse designers i s to import the Micromouse with an adaptive intelligence which enables exp loration of different maze configurations\, and to work out the optimum ro ute with the shortest run time from start to destination and back. In addi tion\, the Micromouse must reliably negotiate the maze at a very high spee d without crashing into the maze walls. The objective of the competition i s to build a Micromouse that can negotiate a specified maze in the shortes t time.\n\nCompetition Guideline: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qHxCL_W cPup8xCOo-kdMauCOFr5XWhof/view?usp=sharing\n\nAll IEEE Student Members and Graduate Student Members are eligible to participate. High School Student s (non-IEEE Member) are also welcome to participate\, but they need to att end a 30 minutes introduction session about IEEE and how IEEE can help the m when they are an Undergraduate Student at a college.\n\nWhether your Mic romouse is not quite functioning\, or you have no Micromouse yet\, you are welcome to participate.\n\nBesides the usual awards towards the fastest m aze solvers\, there is an award for the best Micromouse design. This conte st will focus on the overall design as demonstrated by an oral presentatio n. Although there is no specific format required for the presentation\, th e following guidelines should be used for preparing for the presentation.\ n\nThe team should plan to address the following points in the presentatio n:\n❖ Overall design goals and strategies\n❖ High level structure of t he design (mechanical\, control)\n❖ Design choices for sub functions (lo comotion\, sensing\, etc)\n❖ Overview of software\n❖ Implementation an d testing process and results\n❖ Conclusions\n\nWe encourage groups to f eature the most innovative part (coding\, mechanical design\, etc) during the design presentation. You can give the Oral Presentation while running your micromouse. Each presentation/micromouse run will be 5 minutes\, with another up to 5 minutes for questions.\n\nIf you have not worked on Micro mouse\, and you are interested to develop one\, you should start now. It i s only about 2 weeks left to the competition. But\, it is not too late to start the development. You are allow to get a robot kit\, and do your best to build and program your Micromouse to solve the maze. You should still consider to participate this year competition even your Micromouse is not fully function\, or is not moving. There is a judging award for Best Desig n Micromouse and Innovative Program\, and the Micromouse does not have to perform well in the maze.\n\nPlease contact Soon Wan\, IEEE Region 1 Stude nt Professional Awareness Coordinator (gimsoon@ieee.org) for any question. \n\nCo-sponsored by: Soon Wan\n\nAgenda: \nMIT Stata Center - TSMC (near t he building main entrance)\n\n3:00pm - 5:00pm Micromouse Prractice\n\n6:00 pm - 6:30pm Check-In\n\n6:30pm - 9:30pm Micromouse Competition\n\nRoom: TS MC (near the buildlng main entrance)\, Bldg: Building 32\, MIT - Ray and M aria Stata Center \, 32 Vassar Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, United States LOCATION:Room: TSMC (near the buildlng main entrance)\, Bldg: Building 32\, MIT - Ray and Maria Stata Center \, 32 Vassar Street\, Cambridge\, Massac husetts\, United States ORGANIZER:gimsoon@ieee.org SEQUENCE:77 SUMMARY:2025 IEEE MIT Micromouse Competition URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/504223 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p>2025 IEEE MIT Undergraduate Research Techn ology Conference (URTC) is once again hosting the 2025 MIT Micromouse Comp etition on Saturday\, October 11\, 2025 at 6:00pm to 9:30pm.</p>\n<p>Pleas e note that this registration is to participate the Micromouse Competition only. If you want to attend the URTC conference\, you have to register fo r the conference at <a href="https://cvent.me/kYgPAO">https://cvent.me/kYg PAO</a>&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>A Micromouse is a small robot vehicle that is able to navigate its way through an unknown maze. It is autonomous\, battery-op erated and self-contained\, encompassing computer technology\, robotics an d artificial intelligence. The main challenge for the Micromouse designers is to import the Micromouse with an adaptive intelligence which enables e xploration of different maze configurations\, and to work out the optimum route with the shortest run time from start to destination and back. In ad dition\, the Micromouse must reliably negotiate the maze at a very high sp eed without crashing into the maze walls. The objective of the competition is to build a Micromouse that can negotiate a specified maze in the short est time.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Competition Guideline: <a href="https://drive.goo gle.com/file/d/1qHxCL_WcPup8xCOo-kdMauCOFr5XWhof/view?usp=sharing">https:/ /drive.google.com/file/d/1qHxCL_WcPup8xCOo-kdMauCOFr5XWhof/view?usp=sharin g</a>&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>All IEEE Student Members and Graduate Student Members are eligible to participate. High School Students (non-IEEE Member) are a lso welcome to participate\, but they need to attend a 30 minutes introduc tion session about IEEE and how IEEE can help them when they are an Underg raduate Student at a college.</p>\n<p>Whether your Micromouse is not quite functioning\, or you have no Micromouse yet\, you are welcome to particip ate.&nbsp\;&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Besides the usual awards towards the fastest ma ze solvers\, there is an award for the best Micromouse design. This contes t will focus on the overall design as demonstrated by an oral presentation . Although there is no specific format required for the presentation\, the following guidelines should be used for preparing for the presentation.</ p>\n<p>The team should plan to address the following points in the present ation:<br>❖ Overall design goals and strategies<br>❖ High level struct ure of the design (mechanical\, control)<br>❖ Design choices for sub fun ctions (locomotion\, sensing\, etc)<br>❖ Overview of software<br>❖ Imp lementation and testing process and results<br>❖ Conclusions</p>\n<p>We encourage groups to feature the most innovative part (coding\, mechanical design\, etc) during the design presentation. You can give the Oral Presen tation while running your micromouse. Each presentation/micromouse run wil l be 5 minutes\, with another up to 5 minutes for questions.</p>\n<p>If yo u have not worked on Micromouse\, and you are interested to develop one\, you should start now. It is only about 2 weeks left to the competition. Bu t\, it is not too late to start the development. You are allow to get a ro bot kit\, and do your best to build and program your Micromouse to solve t he maze. You should still consider to participate this year competition ev en your Micromouse is not fully function\, or is not moving. There is a ju dging award for Best Design Micromouse and Innovative Program\, and the Mi cromouse does not have to perform well in the maze.</p>\n<p>Please contact Soon Wan\, IEEE Region 1 Student Professional Awareness Coordinator (gims oon@ieee.org) for any question.&nbsp\;</p><br /><br />Agenda: <br /><p><st rong>MIT Stata Center - TSMC (near the building main entrance)</strong></p >\n<p>3:00pm - 5:00pm Micromouse Prractice</p>\n<p>6:00pm - 6:30pm Check-I n&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>6:30pm - 9:30pm Micromouse Competition</p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR